linux/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative-asm.h
Borislav Petkov 4332195c56 x86/alternatives: Add instruction padding
Up until now we have always paid attention to make sure the length of
the new instruction replacing the old one is at least less or equal to
the length of the old instruction. If the new instruction is longer, at
the time it replaces the old instruction it will overwrite the beginning
of the next instruction in the kernel image and cause your pants to
catch fire.

So instead of having to pay attention, teach the alternatives framework
to pad shorter old instructions with NOPs at buildtime - but only in the
case when

  len(old instruction(s)) < len(new instruction(s))

and add nothing in the >= case. (In that case we do add_nops() when
patching).

This way the alternatives user shouldn't have to care about instruction
sizes and simply use the macros.

Add asm ALTERNATIVE* flavor macros too, while at it.

Also, we need to save the pad length in a separate struct alt_instr
member for NOP optimization and the way to do that reliably is to carry
the pad length instead of trying to detect whether we're looking at
single-byte NOPs or at pathological instruction offsets like e9 90 90 90
90, for example, which is a valid instruction.

Thanks to Michael Matz for the great help with toolchain questions.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
2015-02-23 13:44:00 +01:00

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#ifndef _ASM_X86_ALTERNATIVE_ASM_H
#define _ASM_X86_ALTERNATIVE_ASM_H
#ifdef __ASSEMBLY__
#include <asm/asm.h>
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
.macro LOCK_PREFIX
672: lock
.pushsection .smp_locks,"a"
.balign 4
.long 672b - .
.popsection
.endm
#else
.macro LOCK_PREFIX
.endm
#endif
.macro altinstruction_entry orig alt feature orig_len alt_len pad_len
.long \orig - .
.long \alt - .
.word \feature
.byte \orig_len
.byte \alt_len
.byte \pad_len
.endm
.macro ALTERNATIVE oldinstr, newinstr, feature
140:
\oldinstr
141:
.skip -(((144f-143f)-(141b-140b)) > 0) * ((144f-143f)-(141b-140b)),0x90
142:
.pushsection .altinstructions,"a"
altinstruction_entry 140b,143f,\feature,142b-140b,144f-143f,142b-141b
.popsection
.pushsection .altinstr_replacement,"ax"
143:
\newinstr
144:
.popsection
.endm
.macro ALTERNATIVE_2 oldinstr, newinstr1, feature1, newinstr2, feature2
140:
\oldinstr
141:
.skip -(((144f-143f)-(141b-140b)) > 0) * ((144f-143f)-(141b-140b)),0x90
.skip -(((145f-144f)-(144f-143f)-(141b-140b)) > 0) * ((145f-144f)-(144f-143f)-(141b-140b)),0x90
142:
.pushsection .altinstructions,"a"
altinstruction_entry 140b,143f,\feature1,142b-140b,144f-143f,142b-141b
altinstruction_entry 140b,144f,\feature2,142b-140b,145f-144f,142b-141b
.popsection
.pushsection .altinstr_replacement,"ax"
143:
\newinstr1
144:
\newinstr2
145:
.popsection
.endm
#endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
#endif /* _ASM_X86_ALTERNATIVE_ASM_H */